Tasmanian Times
National
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Extant, Extinct or Eradicated? Does Tasmania’s economy depend on maintaining the existence of two mythic (cryptic) creatures? Over the past 70 years...
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Code Fail
All about Isaac Asimov, Wikipedia, here Bouncing around the Web in the first week of January were snippets from a 1964 article...
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When Justice loses its appeal
A murder conviction which eminent lawyers and legal experts say is quite possibly a gross miscarriage of justice has exposed serious deficiencies...
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Justification and excuse
Ideas matter; they shape the fate of individuals and the destiny of nations. Take John Howard’s alternative reason for the Iraq War...
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Be thankful a free press exposes corruption …
A Moroccan visit reminded this tourist of how media clamps and baksheesh shackle people … I have just arrived in Spain after...
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Abbott’s eco folly will cost us
HEARTACHE from the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1973 by a state government hell bent on development galvanised a global green movement...
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Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows
Estelle Ross: Evening (cloud) reflections on the Tamar River … The Earth’s climate is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than...
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Fresh Thinking — For Our Grandchildren
The laws of physics tell us we can’t build a rocket that will travel faster than the speed of light, that gravity...
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A happy new year is unlikely …
Eye of the storm … Premier Giddings and financial advisers … The Libs’ strategy is equally facile … One lesson from the...
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Potential bidders for Gunns get more time
KORDA MENTHA partner Bryan Webster has extended the deadline for expressions of interest in all or part of Gunns Group to the...
